Re: switching user after kde 3.4 update

From: Alexander Linkenbach (Linkenbach_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 03/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:42:50 +0000

> This should not be. When you login from runlevel 3, is it right after a
> reboot or coming up from runlevel 1? Or, are you at the KDM login screen
> and you do a Ctrl-Alt-Fn to get to a new virtual console (vc)? And, do
> you simply do:
>
> startx
>
> or
>
> startx -- :1
startx for the fist,
startx -- :1 for the second and so on.
That's why I thought it a it odd.

> Ok, you're still in the 'Windows-Think' mode.

Ouch, that hurt...
But it is hard to rid of that habit, even after six years of SuSE...
The point I was trying to make was that with three additional sessions in
unused in the background I get a lot more swapping when scanning my
negatives and doing something else on top of that.

>> IMHO this was the first upgrade worth its name.
>
> After one disastrous upgrade (a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far
> away) I decided to *never* do an OS upgrade again (true for me when I
> was using Windows, as well), and many on this ng feel the same. I'm even
> leery of program upgrades, to the point where I will often rename the
> config dir for the program, remove the program (via YaST or rpm) and
> *then* install the newer version. That way, I don't worry about the
> newer version trashing my old config and, if the new version doesn't
> work out, not having a clean config to go to for the previous version.
> Some have no (or little) trouble, but not me.
>

Personally I think it is worth giving the upgrades a try with the home
folders backed up, if it goes wrong you still have almost no additional
work on top of the intended clean install, if it goes right it might save
me a lot of seting up the system again.

> No, I really don't -- but when I *do*, they can be _impressive_! ;-)

Hey, I had a good one recently: flashed a friend the wrong BIOS...
No recognizing of the drives any more, no boot up, soldered rom, NIGHTMARE!!
Took me 26 hours to find out that the CD drive was recognized.

>
> Part of that is clean installs and using only supported hardware. The
> vast majority of problems I see here seem to be related to 'My Brogodon
> card/mb/peripheral won't cranistate, how can I fix this?' These sorts of
> problems wouldn't be seen so much if they bought supported hardware, or
> a computer with Linux pre-installed on it, like in the Windows world.

That's the reason why I switched to scsi five years ago, but unfortunately I
am stuck now with darn expensve hardware prices.

> Conversely, if you build a cheap box yourself and want to put Windows on
> it with nothing more than the Windows CD itself, good luck! Try buying a
> piece of hardware that doesn't have Windows support and making it work
> under Windows -- then try it under Linux . . . ;-)

Well even with 'supported' hardware all the windows installations I did fo
friends and family were more complicated than the Linux ones; but look at
the bright side: that way I got several of them 'cnverted' to a proper OS.
Trying to do that with my kids' school now...

alex

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